There was another acquisition involving open source software
recently when Consona bought Compiere, but what is perhaps most
striking about the deal from an open source software perspective
is how little it and the Compiere community mattered in the deal.

By most accounts, including that of fellow open source ERP player
xTuple CEO Ned Lilly, who offers an interesting and accurate
depiction of Compiere’s changes, acknowledge the
movement away from community that occurred over the last few
years at Compiere. As discussed in our own recent report on the deal, we are also
somewhat skeptical over the fate of what is left of Compiere’s
open source community, even though Consona plans to …

Regular visitors to the 451 CAOS Theory blog will be well aware
of The 451 Group’s CAOS (Commercial Adoption of Open Source)
research service and our CAOS long-form reports.

They are probably less aware of the open source coverage that The
451 Group provides on a day-to-day and week-to-week basis,
however, and I thought it would be worthwhile to provide some
examples of The 451 Group’s ongoing open source coverage by
highlighting a few recent reports.

A Spring in its step
SpringSource boasted of rapid revenue growth while CEO Rod
Johnson claimed
that Red Hat’s Open Choice initiative is defensive response to
SpringSource, a suggestion that was denied by Rich Sharples.
Freeloaders, leeches and hermits
I already provided my views earlier this week on Infoworld’s
report about open source ‘leeches’ and corporate contributions.
The debate continued as Dave Rosenberg …

I have an ingrained (possibly even genetic) aversion to stock
images. Actually, not all stock: just the vacuous kind. You know
what I mean: like the politically-correct, gender-balanced,
racially-balanced, age-diverse ones where people are all smiling
and pointing at a computer screen you can’t see. Ugh!

(Photo credit: istockphoto.com)

There are many reasons not to use images like this. I guess it’s
okay in some situations — for example when you just want a
smiling, attractive woman with a customer-service headset to
reinforce that you’ve come to the right place for support.
However, even these really don’t have to be stock images. One of
my former employers used their own employees for such photos,
almost exclusively, and it made the site much more real. And
there are plenty of examples of companies that use photos of
their own employees and get “realness” as a result. If I’m not
mistaken, …

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